Re: Code Included: Freeze column

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 29 May 2013 16:29:37 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-D730B4.16293729052013@news.aioe.org>
In article
<566ff119-faa8-4116-9761-65002a3c1cb3@w8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
 Haircuts Are Important <clusardi2k@aol.com> wrote:

Basically, I have been unable to get the the 2 tables to scroll
vertically together etc.


Your example using a shared model seems to do exactly this.

Second below, if I change the dimension of either JScrollPane it
changes the second one. So, the result is I either get a large left
JScrollPane or a small right JScrollPane.


JTable implements Scrollable; you can override the method
getPreferredScrollableViewportSize() to make table A narrower:

final JTable table = new JTable(model) {
    @Override
    public Dimension getPreferredScrollableViewportSize() {
        Dimension d = super.getPreferredScrollableViewportSize();
        return new Dimension(d.width / 2, d.height);
    }
};

I'd also like to remove any spacing between these 2 tables.


The space comes from the default FlowLayout; try this:

JPanel panel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT, 0, 0));

Third, I also tried to put each table into a separate JPanel and put
all this into a JScrollPane, but it (appeared to) yield the same
results as the second thing I tried.


I don't understand.

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